Alexandre Tharaud is the soloist in Ravel's piano concerto for the left hand with BBC Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena. Jonathan Swain presents.
Missa sancta No.1 in E flat major, (J.224) 'Freischutzmesse' for soli, chorus & orchestra
Norwegian Soloist Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen Helgerød (conductor)
Vladislav Brunner jr. (flute), Herta Madarova (harpsichord)
Lamentabile Consort: Jan Stromberg & Gunnar Andersson (tenors), Bertil Marcusson (baritone), Olle Sköld (bass)
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arr. Perry, Harold
Divertimento (Feldpartita) (H.
) in B flat major arr. for wind quintet (attributed to Haydn, possibly by Pleyel)
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet: Georgi Spasov (flute), Georgi Zhelyazov (oboe), Petko Radev (clarinet), Marin Valchanov (bassoon), Vladislav Grigorov (horn)
Zagar, Peter (b. 1961)
Clifford Curzon (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor).
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and also including music from BBC Music's Ten Pieces project - a scheme to introduce classical music to secondary schools. Today the breakfast show will be playing the 5th movement from Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra.
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the songs of Gabriel Fauré' Throughout the week Rob dips into the songbooks of Fauré, with choices including Le Secret, Après un rêve and Lydia. Rob highlights Fauré's subtle word settings, unusual harmonies and the sympathetic way he depicts nature and the world around him, with recordings by singers including Gérard Souzay, Pierre Bernac and Anne Sofie von Otter.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
Especially for National Poetry Day, Rob's guest this week is the poet and writer Jean Sprackland. Jean's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and her second book, Hard Water, was on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her third collection, Tilt, won the Costa Poetry Award and The Guardian described her most recent book of poetry, Sleeping Keys, as 'an uncommon pleasure to read'. Jean has also written a series of short stories and a non-fiction work titled Strands, a series of meditations on walking the beaches between Blackpool and Liverpool. She will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Rob every day at
To celebrate the new BBC Ten Pieces project, Rob chooses music that complements this exciting selection of works.
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Ferenc Fricsay. One of the most acclaimed conductors of his generation, and famed for conducting without a baton, Hungarian-born Fricsay studied violin and piano with Bartók and composition with Kodály. After going into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, he conducted the first symphony concert in the Hungarian capital after the liberation in 1945, and was appointed as conductor of the Budapest Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Fricsay went on to forge an international career, conducting orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He performed his final concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall before his untimely death from stomach cancer at the age of 48. Throughout the week Rob showcases gems from Fricsay's small but precious catalogue of recordings.
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, the work that brought him global fame: his Second Piano Concerto.
In March 1897, what should have been a triumphant occasion for Rachmaninov - the première of his First Symphony - turned into an unmitigated catastrophe. An under-rehearsed orchestra under the baton of a poor and, according to some accounts, inebriated conductor was enough to disadvantage the work so seriously that its composer was plunged into silence for the next three years. An encounter with the novelist Tolstoy was arranged, in the rather surprising hope that the surly old curmudgeon might be able to set the diffident young composer back on track. After that failed, the services of Dr Nikolai Dahl, a music-loving hypnotherapist, were called upon. Whatever Dahl did, it did the trick, and Rachmaninov's writer's block was spectacularly broken with his Second Piano Concerto, which quickly became a major international success.
The "Martha Argerich Project", one of the main events of the Lugano Festival, is now in its 14th year. Argerich gathers together a range of musicians, some well-established and others at the beginning of their careers, who play together, sharing the stage. Concerts are held in churches, theatres and auditoria around the city, and the repertoire is very varied. Today's concert includes Schumann's Six Studies in Canonic Form, played by Argerich herself, with Lilya Zilberstein.
Schumann: Six studies in canonic form, Op. 56,
Prokofiev: Five Melodies, Op. 35b
Penny Gore continues this week of performances by the BBC NOW with music by Pärt, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky, plus Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra, one of this year's Ten Pieces which aims to open up the world of classical music to children aged 11 and over, recorded at this summer's Proms by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op.23
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Mr McFall's Chamber, Justina Gringyte, Noah Stewart, Trevor Pinnock, Jonathan McGovern
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from Mr McFall's Chamber ahead of the ensemble's programme 'Island Life - Celebrating Caribbean Connections' at Kings Place in London. More live music from early music pioneer Trevor Pinnock and young baritone Jonathan McGovern as they prepare for two concerts of music by Purcell at Colyer-Fergusson Hall, Kent and Wigmore Hall, London. Plus, mezzo-soprano Justina Gringyte and tenor Noah Stewart discuss Scottish Opera's upcoming production of Bizet's Carmen and Ten Pieces ambassador, Nicola Benedetti presents: Ten Facts Ten Pieces - a short downloadable feature linked to the BBC's Ten Pieces project, which continues to inspire a generation of children to become creative with classical music. Each day Nicola finds ten quirky and entertaining facts about each of the Ten Pieces.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Antoni Wit, celebrate the music of Henryk Gorecki at the Barbican. Including the powerful Symphony No. 2 'Copernican' and 'Kyrie'.
Gorecki: Kyrie Op. 83 (UK Premiere)
INTERVAL: Gorecki's String Quartet No 1, 'Already it is Dusk' performed by the Silesian String Quartet during the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion: Henryk Gorecki - Polish Pioneer.
Gorecki: Symphony No. 2 'Copernican'
The late Henryk Gorecki came to universal fame in the early 1990s with his extraordinary Third Symphony, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. The BBC Symphony Orchestra turned the spotlight on him on Saturday 3rd October in a day of concerts at the Barbican, London, in Total Immersion: Henryk Gorecki - Polish Pioneer.
This concert features the UK premiere of the Kyrie (2005), evocatively scored for strings, piano and percussion with chorus - the BBC Symphony Chorus - and Mahan Esfahani is the soloist in the Harpsichord Concerto. In this unusual work the harpsichord lends ferocious dynamism to its granitic textures in contrast to the monumental stillness of the Symphony No. 2 'Copernican', in which the full BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by Marie Arnet, Marcus Farnsworth and, again, the BBC Symphony Chorus.
James Fenton discusses his career as a poet and journalist ahead of collecting the PEN Pinter Prize 2015 in a ceremony tonight. New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton researches the plays performed by Suffragettes. She offers her verdict on the film Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Carey Mulligan. And Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street 25 years ago. Anne McElvoy is at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester to discuss her legacy with her official biographer, Charles Moore, and Conservative MP, Kwasi Kwarteng.
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore is published by Allen Lane.
James Fenton has made a selection of his poems published under the title Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968 - 2011
The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold Pinter's Nobel speech, casts an 'unflinching, unswerving' gaze upon the world, and shows a 'fierce intellectual determination ... to define the real truth of our lives and our societies'.
As people get deep into middle age it's normal to look back at your childhood through a golden haze of nostalgia. But what if things really were better in the past? What if, by chance, you were born and grew up in a time and place of unprecedented economic growth and stability?
In this series of five talks for The Essay, Michael Goldfarb, born in the middle of the American Century, looks back at growing up in a US where things really were better: economically and socially. As the US struggles with growing inequality and political gridlock, Goldfarb remembers being born in the afterglow of World War 2, and how the "children of victory" were certain that the future would always be bright.
In this programme he explains how, in the 1950s, America's great migration to the suburbs led to mixed blessings: open space and isolation.
New music from Mali, 1970s electronica from Beaver & Krause, Irish folk from the duo of Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, plus a recording of Louis Andriessen's Mouse Running for solo marimba. With Verity Sharp.
WEDNESDAY 07 OCTOBER 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b06fll75)
Proms 2014: Greek Legends
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of baroque music reflecting Greek legends from the 2014 BBC Proms, including Handel, Gluck, Lully and Hasse, performed by Armonia Atenea.
12:31 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Sinfonia from Act 1, Artemisia
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
12:37 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Mi lagnero tacendo, from Siroe, re di Persia
Myrsini Margariti (soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
12:45 AM
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
Overture from Alessandro
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
12:51 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Non so frenare il pianto, from Antigono
Irini Karaianni (mezzo-soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:00 AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)
Suite from Phaeton
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:13 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
O placido il mare, from Siroe, re di Persia
Myrsini Margariti (soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:19 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Dance of the blessed spirits; Dance of the furies, from Orfeo ed Euridice
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:29 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Ma fille, Jupiter (Clytemnestra), from Iphigénie en Aulide
Irini Karaianni (mezzo-soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:34 AM
Paisiello, Giovanni (1740-1816)
E mi lasci così?...Ne' giorni tuoi felici (recit and duet), from L'Olimpiade
Myrsini Margariti (soprano), Irini Karaianni (mezzo-soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:41 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Sinfonia from Act 1, Siroe, re di Persia
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:44 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613)
Tenebrae responses for Good Friday for 6 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
2:31 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei [1891-1953]
Symphony No.3 in C minor (Op.44)
Orchestre National de France, Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)
3:06 AM
Bruch, Max Christian Friedrich (1838-1920)
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor (Op.26)
Roland Orlik (violin), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Marek Pijarowski (conductor)
3:32 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in C major (K.420)
Ilze Graubina (piano)
3:38 AM
Mudarra, Alonso (c.1510-1580)
Claros y frescos rios
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
3:43 AM
Raitio, Vaino [1891-1945]
Serenade for orchestra
Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:48 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
Fantasie pastoral hongroise (Op.26)
Ian Mullin (flute), Richard Shaw (piano)
3:59 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) [text: Psalm 46]
Gott ist unser Zuversicht - motet for double chorus & bc
Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel (director)
4:03 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713]
"Giacona" from Trio Sonata No.12
Stockholm Antiqua
4:06 AM
Muffat, Georg [1653-1704]
Passacaglia from Sonata No.5
Stockholm Antiqua
4:16 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Impromptu No.4 in A flat major, from Impromptus for piano (D.899)
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
4:22 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Polonaise de concert in A major (1867)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zygmunt Rychert (conductor)
4:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arr. Harold Perry
Divertimento in B flat Major (H.
2.46) arr. for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble
4:40 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Introduction in C minor and Rondo in E flat major, (Op.16)
Dina Yoffe & Daniel Vaiman (pianos)
4:52 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Ithaka (Op.21)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
5:02 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
La Gitana (after an 18th century Arabo-Spanish Gypsy song) for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
5:05 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Liebesfreud for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
5:09 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Clarinet Concerto No.1 in E flat
Kullervo Kojo (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Söderblom (conductor)
5:32 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Trio Sonata in C minor (Op. 2 no.1)
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori (ensemble)
5:45 AM
Janequin, Clément (c.1485-1558)
Escoutez tous gentilz (La bataille de Marignon/La guerre) - from Chansons de maistre Clément Janequin, Paris c.1528
The King's Singers
5:53 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata No.1 in D major (Op.12 No.1)
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
6:12 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No.2
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b06flnjm)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and also including music from BBC Music's Ten Pieces project - a scheme to introduce classical music to secondary schools. Today the breakfast show will be playing the 'Habanera' and 'Toreador Song' from Bizet's Carmen Suite No. 2.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b06flnzr)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jean Sprackland
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the songs of Gabriel Fauré' Throughout the week Rob dips into the songbooks of Fauré, with choices including Le Secret, Après un rêve and Lydia. Rob highlights Fauré's subtle word settings, unusual harmonies and the sympathetic way he depicts nature and the world around him, with recordings by singers including Gérard Souzay, Pierre Bernac and Anne Sofie von Otter.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?
10am
Especially for National Poetry Day, Rob's guest this week is the poet and writer Jean Sprackland. Jean's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and her second book, Hard Water, was on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her third collection, Tilt, won the Costa Poetry Award and The Guardian described her most recent book of poetry, Sleeping Keys, as 'an uncommon pleasure to read'. Jean has also written a series of short stories and a non-fiction work titled Strands, a series of meditations on walking the beaches between Blackpool and Liverpool. She will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
To celebrate the new BBC Ten Pieces project, Rob chooses music that complements this exciting selection of works.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Ferenc Fricsay. One of the most acclaimed conductors of his generation, and famed for conducting without a baton, Hungarian-born Fricsay studied violin and piano with Bartók and composition with Kodály. After going into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, he conducted the first symphony concert in the Hungarian capital after the liberation in 1945, and was appointed as conductor of the Budapest Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Fricsay went on to forge an international career, conducting orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He performed his final concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall before his untimely death from stomach cancer at the age of 48. Throughout the week Rob showcases gems from Fricsay's small but precious catalogue of recordings.
Prokofiev
Symphony No.1 in D major Op.25 'Classical'
Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra
Ferenc Fricsay (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06flp29)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
The New World
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, his epic and fiendishly difficult Third Piano Concerto.
Rachmaninov's songs are probably the least-known part of his output, but they're well worth exploring. The Opus 26 set was written at the behest of Mariya Kerzina, who with her wealthy lawyer husband Arkady founded the 'Circle of Russian Music Lovers in Moscow', which grew into an important and influential sponsor of new music in the first decade of the 20th century. By the time he wrote that set of songs, Rachmaninov was, like everyone else, becoming increasingly disturbed by the political unrest he could see all around him. In 1906 he took his family on an extended break in Italy in the hope that things at home might begin to settle down again. An invitation to tour America offered a further reason to stay away but for the moment, family illness prevented him from accepting. Three years later, when a second invitation came his way, he said yes. He wrote his Third Piano Concerto specially for that tour. The response was respectful rather than ecstatic, although the second performance, under the baton of none other than Gustav Mahler, prompted a warmer response from the critics. Only when Vladimir Horowitz took up the concerto in the 1930s did it begin to achieve its current popularity in the concert hall.
'All was taken from me', Op 26 No 2
Rodion Pogossov, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano
Fifteen Songs, Op 26
- No 1, 'The heart's secret'
- No 3, 'We shall rest'
- No 10, 'At my window'
- No 15, 'Everything passes'
Justina Gringyte, mezzo-soprano (1)
Alexander Vinogradov, bass (3)
Ekaterina Siurina, soprano (10)
Andrei Bondarenko, baritone (15)
Iain Burnside, piano
Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30
Van Cliburn, piano
Symphony of the Air
Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Producer: Chris Barstow.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06flpfy)
Highlights of the Martha Argerich Project
The "Martha Argerich Project", one of the main events of the Lugano Festival, is now in its 14th year. Argerich gathers together a range of musicians, some well-established and others at the beginning of their careers, who play together, sharing the stage. Concerts are held in churches, theatres and auditoria around the city, and the repertoire is very varied. Today's programme includes Schubert's Eight Variations in A flat, D813, for piano four hands, played by Argerich herself with Alexander Mogilevsky.
Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Stephen Kovacevich, piano
Schubert: Eight Variations in A flat, D813, for piano four hands
Alexander Mogilevsky and Martha Argerich, piano
Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Geza Hosszu-Legocky, violin
Karin Lechner, piano.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06flpg0)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 3
Penny Gore introduces music by Copland, Ravel and Mendelssohn performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales plus, for BBC Music's Ten Pieces, aimed at opening up the world of classical music to children aged 11 and above, a selection from Bizet's Carmen from the BBC Philharmonic
2pm
Ten Pieces
Bizet: Carmen (selection)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
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2.20pm
Copland: Quiet City for cor anglais, trumpet and strings
Philippe Schartz (trumpet)
Sarah-Jayne Porsmoguer (cor anglais)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ben Gernon (conductor)
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2.30pm
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Peter Donohoe (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
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2.50pm
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op.90 (Italian)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b06flq2k)
Norwich Cathedral
Live from Norwich Cathedral, commemorating the centenary of the death of Nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed on 12th October 1915, and is buried at the cathedral.
Introit: Justorum animae (Stanford)
Responses: Ashley Grote
Office Hymn: Lord, thy word abideth (Ravenshaw)
Psalm 37 (Goss, Ouseley)
First Lesson: Hosea 14
Canticles: Great Service in D (Parry)
Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 1 vv12-17
Anthem: Greater love (Ireland)
Final Hymn: Abide with me (Eventide)
Organ Voluntary: Sonata in E flat - first movement (Bairstow)
Master of Music: Ashley Grote
Organist: David Dunnett.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b06flpjm)
David Owen Norris, Amanda Pitt, Olga Stezhko
Sean Rafferty, with a lively mix of music, arts news and guests, including pianist David Owen Norris with soprano Amanda Pitt, and the Belarusian pianist Olga Stezhko. Plus Ten Pieces ambassador Nicola Benedetti presents: Ten Facts Ten Pieces - a short downloadable feature linked to the BBC's Ten Pieces project, which continues to inspire a generation of children to become creative with classical music. Each day Nicola finds ten quirky and entertaining facts about each of the Ten Pieces.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06flp29)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06flpnn)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Weber, Brahms, Saint-Saens
Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony.
Live from the Lighthouse, Poole
Weber: Euryanthe Overture
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor
8.20: Interval
8.40
Saint-Saëns : Symphony No.3 in C minor, 'Organ'
Louis Lortie, piano
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Recognised at once as a landmark, Saint-Saëns's Third Symphony had a powerful impact on later symphonists with its unconventional form and extended thematic development from a few simple opening ideas. It reveals a genuine flair for sumptuous orchestral colour, suave and unforgettable melody and brilliant craftsmanship - the zenith of his symphonic output.
Brahms spent the greater part of the 1850s building his first orchestral masterpiece, the D minor Piano Concerto, out of material meant for other works.It is a bold and daring work, stormy and dramatic, tender and lyrical, and filled with youthful passion and surging power written at a time of intense personal experiences for Brahms, most of which revolved around his complicated relationship with Robert and Clara Schumann.
Schumann himself appraised Weber's operatic gem as "a chain of sparkling jewels from beginning to end - all brilliant and flawless.".
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b06flptg)
Acting Arthur Miller, Free Speech on Campus
Antony Sher and the stars of next Sunday's Drama on 3: Death of a Salesman, Zoë Wanamaker and David Suchet, discuss acting Arthur Miller with Philip Dodd. Also, are university campuses becoming places where free speech and debate is difficult? To discuss Free Thinking brings together Director of Curriculum for Cohesion and university lecturer Dr Matthew Tariq Wilkinson, journalist and Deputy Editor of the New Statesman Helen Lewis, and lawyer and author Anthony Julius.
Producer: Ella-mai Robey.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b06flpvq)
Bliss Was It in That Dawn
Episode 3
As people get deep into middle age it's normal to look back at your childhood through a golden haze of nostalgia. But what if things really were better in the past? What if, by chance, you were born and grew up in a time and place of unprecedented economic growth and stability?
In this series of five talks for The Essay, Michael Goldfarb, born in the middle of the American Century, looks back at growing up in a US where things really were better: economically and socially. As the US struggles with growing inequality and political gridlock, Goldfarb remembers being born in the afterglow of World War 2, and how the "children of victory" were certain that the future would always be bright.
In this programme, he recalls growing up in an era of full-employment, the 1950s and 60s.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b06g1nkv)
Wednesday - Verity Sharp
Verity Sharp with music from Mali's Boubacar Traore, the duo of Scanner and David Rothenberg, prepared guitar from Paolo Angeli and choral music by Henry Gorecki.
THURSDAY 08 OCTOBER 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b06fll7p)
Croatian Independence Day
Jonathan Swain introduces a special programme for Croatian Independence Day including new recordings by the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra.
12:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Tapiola - tone poem Op.112
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Aleksandar Markovic (Conductor)
12:50 AM
Pejacevic, Dora (1885-1923)
Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
Martina Filjak (Piano), Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Aleksandar Markovic (Conductor)
1:20 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Finale. Höchst lebhaft in B flat major from Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op.26
Martina Filjak (Piano)
1:23 AM
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928)
Taras Bulba - rhapsody for orchestra
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Aleksandar Markovic (Conductor)
1:48 AM
Paganini, Nicolo (1782-1840)
Moses fantaisie (after Rossini) for cello and piano (Bravura Variations on one chord from a Rossini theme)
Monika Leskovar (Cello), Ivana Schwartz (Piano)
1:57 AM
Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991)
3 Studies, dedicated to B.J.M
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
2:09 AM
Pejacevic, Dora (1885-1923)
Life of Flowers (Op.19)
Ida Gamulin (piano)
2:31 AM
Odak, Krsto (1888-1965)
Adriatic Symphony (Op.36)
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Baldo Podic (Conductor)
3:04 AM
Franck, Cesar (1822-1890)
Sonata in A major (M.8) for either violin or cello
Daniil Shafran (Cello), Anton Osetrov (Piano)
3:32 AM
Stanley, John (1712-1786)
Trumpet Voluntary
Stanko Arnold (Trumpet), Ljerka Ocic-Turkulin (Organ)
3:35 AM
Anonymous
Laudate Dominum from 'Alleluiaticum' (Sacred music in the Frankish tradition)
dialogos (Choir), Sequentia (Group), Katarina Livljanic (Director), Benjamin Bagby (Director)
3:40 AM
Sakac, Branimir (1918-1979)
Serenade for strings (1947)
Zagreb Radio Chamber Orchestra, Igor Gjadrov (Conductor)
3:54 AM
Matusic, Frano (b.1961)
Two Croatian Folksongs
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio (Trio)
4:01 AM
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1789)
Air: 'Return, O God of hosts' from "Samson", Act 2
Maureen Forester (Alto), I Solisti Zagreb, Antonio Janigro (Conductor)
4:10 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand (Op.9)
Martina Filjak (Piano)
4:21 AM
Bersa, Blagoje (1873-1934)
Capriccio-Scherzo (Op.25c) (1902)
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Sorkocevic, Luka (1734-1789)
Sinfonie in D major
Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner (Organ), Wolfgang Brunner (Director)
4:38 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.45
Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
4:44 AM
Baranovic, Kresimir (1894-1975)
Licitarsko srce (Gingerbread Heart) - Suite from the Ballet
Mladen Tarbuk (Conductor), Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
5:00 AM
Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991)
Nad grobom ljepote djevojke (By the Grave of the Beauty) (Op.39)
Slovenian Chamber Choir (Choir), Vladimir Kranjcevic (Director)
5:07 AM
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Capriccio diabolico for guitar (Op.85)
Goran Listes (Guitar)
5:17 AM
Gotovac, Jakov (1895-1982)
Symphonic Dance "Kolo" (Op.12) (1926)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono (Conductor)
5:26 AM
Livadic, Ferdo (1799-1878)
2 Scherzos, in E major and A flat minor
Vladimir Krpan (Piano)
5:31 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Metamorphosen
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic (Conductor)
6:02 AM
Schiavetto, Giulio (fl.1562-5, Croatian) transcr. Dr Lovro Zupanovic
Madrigal: Io non voglio lodar (I do not wish to praise)
Slovenian Chamber Choir (Choir), Vladimir Kranjcevic (Director)
6:05 AM
Schiavetto, Giulio (fl.1562-5, Croatian) transcr. Dr Lovro Zupanovic
Madrigal: Liete piante (Tender plants)
Slovenian Chamber Choir (Choir), Vladimir Kranjcevic (Director)
6:08 AM
Schiavetto, Giulio (fl.1562-5, Croatian) transcr. Dr Lovro Zupanovic
Madrigal: Era 'l giorno (There was a day)
Slovenian Chamber Choir (Choir), Vladimir Kranjcevic (Director)
6:11 AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Cello Concerto No.1 (G474) in E flat major
David Geringas (Cello), Varazdin Chamber Orchestra, David Geringas (Conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b06flnjr)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Today to mark National Poetry Day, the poet and Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan joins the programme for a special edition which will include poems on the theme of light alongside the usual mix of music to start the day.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b06fnw03)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jean Sprackland
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the songs of Gabriel Fauré' Throughout the week Rob dips into the songbooks of Fauré, with choices including Le Secret, Après un rêve and Lydia. Rob highlights Fauré's subtle word settings, unusual harmonies and the sympathetic way he depicts nature and the world around him, with recordings by singers including Gérard Souzay, Pierre Bernac and Anne Sofie von Otter.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.
10am
Especially for National Poetry Day, Rob's guest this week is the poet and writer Jean Sprackland. Jean's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and her second book, Hard Water, was on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her third collection, Tilt, won the Costa Poetry Award and The Guardian described her most recent book of poetry, Sleeping Keys, as 'an uncommon pleasure to read'. Jean has also written a series of short stories and a non-fiction work titled Strands, a series of meditations on walking the beaches between Blackpool and Liverpool. She will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
To celebrate the new BBC Ten Pieces project, Rob chooses music that complements this exciting selection of works.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Ferenc Fricsay. One of the most acclaimed conductors of his generation, and famed for conducting without a baton, Hungarian-born Fricsay studied violin and piano with Bartók and composition with Kodály. After going into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, he conducted the first symphony concert in the Hungarian capital after the liberation in 1945, and was appointed as conductor of the Budapest Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Fricsay went on to forge an international career, conducting orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He performed his final concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall before his untimely death from stomach cancer at the age of 48. Throughout the week Rob showcases gems from Fricsay's small but precious catalogue of recordings.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06flp2c)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Flight
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, a work that failed to reflect the spirit of its time: his Fourth Piano Concerto.
Sergey Rachmaninov spent the first two-thirds of his life in Russia. In the fateful year of 1917, at the age of 44, he realized that he must now uproot himself and his family and flee abroad. Someone from his landowning background would not have fared well under the new regime - perhaps he wouldn't have survived at all. As luck would have it he received an invitation to play a concert in Stockholm in the new year, and despite the chaos at home he managed to get permission from the authorities to travel.
He made the journey with his family, taking only what could be carried in their luggage. They made the final leg, across the Swedish border, in an open sled during a blizzard, arriving in Stockholm on Christmas Eve. Stockholm, however, was to be only a temporary resting-place. Some years earlier he had undertaken a concert tour of America, and now he decided that America was where he had the best chance of carving out a living as a concert pianist. Before the year was done, the Rachmaninovs were chugging across the Atlantic on a Norwegian steamer, arriving in New York almost a year after they had fled Russia.
Rachmaninov's first American work was the ill-fated Fourth Piano Concerto, which received a critical panning after its première and fared no better in Europe in a hastily revised version. Perhaps it just seemed too old-fashioned for the Roaring Twenties. Rachmaninov made one further revision, in 1941, but the piece still failed to capture the imagination of the concert-going public. In today's programme, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli makes an electrifying case for the work. Rachmaninov's final piece for solo piano, the Variations on a Theme of Corelli, inhabits a totally different world from the concerto. Iit has its moments of passion, but overall it's cooler, more restrained, wistful - subdued even. Rachmaninov related how in performance he would make impromptu cuts in the work, depending on the amount of audience coughing.
Rimsky Korsakov, arr Rachmaninov
Flight of the Bumble Bee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Sergey Rachmaninov, piano
Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ettore Gracis, conductor
3 Russian Songs, Op 41: 2. 'Oh Vanka, what a hothead you are'
Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42
Mikhail Pletnev, piano
Producer: Chris Barstow.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06flpg2)
Highlights of the Martha Argerich Project
The "Martha Argerich Project", one of the main events of the Lugano Festival, is now in its 14th year. Argerich gathers together a range of musicians, some well-established and others at the beginning of their careers, who play together, sharing the stage. Concerts are held in churches, theatres and auditoria around the city, and the repertoire is very varied. Today's concert includes Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, played by Argerich herself with violinist Geza Hosszu-Legocky.
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56
Geza Hosszu-Legocky, violin
Martha Argerich, piano
Prokofiev, arr. Borisovsky
Excerpts from 'Romeo and Juliet, op. 54', arr. for viola and piano
Lyda Chen, viola
Cristina Marton, piano
Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 32 in B flat, K. 454
Dora Schwarzberg, violin
Walter Delahunt, piano.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06flpg4)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Rossini - La Gazzetta
Penny Gore presents this week's Opera Matinee: Rossini's 'La Gazzetta', which satirizes the influence of newspapers on people's lives, recorded at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in August. The pompous Don Pomponio Storione travels the world in search of a husband for his daughter, putting ads in the newspapers, but learns that this might not be the route to his daughter's happiness. Rossini's second opera written for Naples was the only comedy he wrote there, but there are conflicting reports on whether or not it was well received.
Rossini: La Gazzetta
Madama la Rose ..... José Maria Lo Monaco (mezzo-soprano)
Doralice ..... Raffaella Lupinacci (soprano)
Lisetta ..... Hasmik Torosyan (soprano)
Don Pomponio Storione ..... Nicola Alaimo (bass)
Monsù Traversen ..... Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore (bass)
Alberto ..... Maxim Mironov (tenor)
Filippo ..... Vito Priante (baritone)
Anselmo ..... Dario Shikhmiri (bass)
Andrea Faidutti (chorus director)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale, Bologna
Enrique Mazzola (conductor)
Recorded 11/08/2015
Pesaro - Rossini Theatre.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b06flpjp)
Thursday - Sean Rafferty
Ten Pieces ambassador, Nicola Benedetti presents: Ten Facts Ten Pieces - a short downloadable feature linked to the BBC's Ten Pieces project, which continues to inspire a generation of children to become creative with classical music. Each day Nicola finds ten quirky and entertaining facts about each of the Ten Pieces.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06flp2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06flpnr)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius Symphonies
Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius Symphonies.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op 82
8.15: Interval
8.35
Symphony No. 6 in D minor
Symphony No. 7 in C major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
"Other composers mix brightly coloured cocktails" said Jean Sibelius. "I offer pure, cool water". From the radiant sunrise that opens the Fifth to the deep tranquillity of the Sixth and the windswept peaks of the Seventh, Sibelius's last three symphonies are like a force of nature. For BBC SSO Chief Conductor-Designate, Thomas Dausgaard, this is music that can transform the very way you hear the world; "at once monumental and intimately personal" is how one critic described his approach to Sibelius. Under Dausgaard's direction, this single-evening Sibelius trilogy will be an exhilarating journey through one of the 20th century's greatest - and most inspiring - musical minds.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b06flptj)
Landmark: Leaves of Grass
The American poet Mark Doty, Professor Sarah Churchwell and the young British poet Andrew McMillan join Matthew Sweet for a programme dedicated to one of the classics of American poetry, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
Readings performed by William Hope.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Originally broadcast on Thu 8 Oct 2015.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b06flpvv)
Bliss Was It in That Dawn
Episode 4
As people get deep into middle age it's normal to look back at your childhood through a golden haze of nostalgia. But what if things really were better in the past? What if, by chance, you were born and grew up in a time and place of unprecedented economic growth and stability?
In this series of five talks for The Essay, Michael Goldfarb, born in the middle of the American Century, looks back at growing up in a US where things really were better: economically and socially. As the US struggles with growing inequality and political gridlock, Goldfarb remembers being born in the afterglow of World War 2, and how the "children of victory" were certain that the future would always be bright.
In this programme, Michael looks at the books and films that turned the children of victory born after the Second World War into the rebels of 1968.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b06g6456)
Thursday - Verity Sharp
Verity Sharp with new music composer Dan Trueman, Quebecois roots from De Temps Antan, and experimental vocal sounds in the form of throat singer Tanya Tagaq, and from 1956, Toru Takemitsu's Vocalism Ai for tape.
FRIDAY 09 OCTOBER 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b06fll84)
Mendelssohn and Chausson from Poland
Jonathan Swain presents a concert by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
12:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - overture Op.26
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
12:42 AM
Chausson, Ernest [1855-1899]
Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op.19
Iwona Socha (soprano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
1:09 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Symphony No. 3 in A minor Op.56 (Scottish)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
1:47 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Piano Quintet in F minor (Op.34)
Aleksandra Juozapenaite-Eesma (piano), M.K. Ciurlionis String Quartet - Jonas Tankevicius & Darius Diksaitis (violins), Aloyzas Grizas (viola), Saulius Lipcius (cello)
2:31 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Vespers (All-night vigil) for chorus (Op.37)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (director)
3:27 AM
Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918)
Nocturne for flute and piano
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Audrone Kisieliute (piano)
3:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Septet in B flat for 3 oboes, 3 violins & basso continuo (TWV.
44:43)
Il Gardellino: Marcel Ponseele, Ann Vanlancker & Taka Kitazato (baroque oboes), Ryo Terakado, Blai Justo & Mika Akiha (baroque violins), René Schiffer (baroque cello), Frank Coppieters (violone), Robert Kohnen (harpsichord)
3:41 AM
Blockx, Jan (1851-1912)
Flemish Dances
BRT Philharmonic Orchestra Brussels, Alexander Rahbari (conductor)
3:55 AM
Franck, César Auguste (1822-1890)
Final in B flat major (Op.21)
Leo van Doeselaar (1891 Michel Maarschalkweerd organ, Amsterdam Concertgebouw)
4:07 AM
Obrecht, Jakob (1450-1505)
Omnis spiritus laudet - offertory motet for 5 voices
Ensemble Daedalus
4:13 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Brewaeys, Luc (b.1959)
No.1, Danseuses de Delphes (Preludes book 1)
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
4:17 AM
Marx, Joseph (1882-1964) (Text: E. H. Hess)
Nachtgebet (Evening Prayer)
Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano), Robert Kortgaard (piano)
4:21 AM
Arban, Jean-Baptiste [1825-1889]
Le Carnaval de Venise - variations for cornet and piano
Vilém Hofbauer (trumpet), Miroslava Trnková (piano)
4:31 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Night and festal music - prelude to act II from the opera Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:38 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No.14 (Sonata quasi una fantasia) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight' (Op.27 No.2)
Håvard Gimse (piano)
4:53 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Op.28)
Taik-Ju Lee (violin), Young-Lan Han (piano)
5:03 AM
Caldara, Antonio (1670-1736)
Medea in Corinto - solo cantata for voice, strings and continuo
Gérard Lèsne (countertenor), Il Seminario Musicale
5:18 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Prometheus - symphonic poem (S.99)
The Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
5:32 AM
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857)
Etude in G flat
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5:35 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Rondo in B minor (Op.109)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5:44 AM
Carissimi, Giacomo (1605-1674)
Vanitas vanitatum
Olga Pasiecznik & Marta Boberska (sopranos), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble - Wim Maseele (guitar, theorbo), Lilianna Stawarz (chamber organ), Agata Sapiecha (violin & director
5:55 AM
Cimarosa, Domenico (1749-1801), original oboe arrangement by Arthur Benjamin
Oboe Concerto, arranged for trumpet
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
6:06 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Cello Sonata in G minor (Op.65)
Zara Nelsova (cello), Grant Johannesen (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b06flnjt)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and also including music from BBC Music's Ten Pieces project - a scheme to introduce classical music to secondary schools. Today the breakfast show will be playing Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries' from 'Die Walküre'.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b06fnwhm)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Jean Sprackland
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the songs of Gabriel Fauré' Throughout the week Rob dips into the songbooks of Fauré, with choices including Le Secret, Après un rêve and Lydia. Rob highlights Fauré's subtle word settings, unusual harmonies and the sympathetic way he depicts nature and the world around him, with recordings by singers including Gérard Souzay, Pierre Bernac and Anne Sofie von Otter.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the music and see if you can trace the classical inspiration.
10am
Especially for National Poetry Day, Rob's guest this week is the poet and writer Jean Sprackland. Jean's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and her second book, Hard Water, was on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her third collection, Tilt, won the Costa Poetry Award and The Guardian described her most recent book of poetry, Sleeping Keys, as 'an uncommon pleasure to read'. Jean has also written a series of short stories and a non-fiction work titled Strands, a series of meditations on walking the beaches between Blackpool and Liverpool. She will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
To celebrate the new BBC Ten Pieces project, Rob chooses music that complements this exciting selection of works.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Ferenc Fricsay. One of the most acclaimed conductors of his generation, and famed for conducting without a baton, Hungarian-born Fricsay studied violin and piano with Bartók and composition with Kodály. After going into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, he conducted the first symphony concert in the Hungarian capital after the liberation in 1945, and was appointed as conductor of the Budapest Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Fricsay went on to forge an international career, conducting orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He performed his final concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall before his untimely death from stomach cancer at the age of 48. Throughout the week Rob showcases gems from Fricsay's small but precious catalogue of recordings.
Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major K201
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Ferenc Fricsay (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06flp2f)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Indian Summer
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, a late masterpiece: the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
After his flight to America in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninov never again returned to his homeland. He did make a partial return to Europe, though; in 1933 he was able to move into his newly built villa on the shores of Lake Lucerne, where he would spend summers until the outbreak of World War Two. The serenity of the Villa Senar (named after SErgei and NAtalya Rachmaninov), in tandem with the not unwelcome surprise of the Steinway concert grand (a housewarming gift from the company) that was waiting for him when he arrived there, got Rachmaninov's creative juices flowing again, and the following year, on Swiss soil, he wrote one of his finest and most popular pieces - a set of 24 variations on the famous 24th Caprice for solo violin by Paganini. Fast-forward six years and Rachmaninov is back in the USA, recuperating from a small operation in a secluded house he had rented on Long Island. Here, in not much more than a month, he wrote his Symphonic Dances - "My last spark", he called them - a wonderfully affirmative swansong from a composer famous for his lugubrious manner.
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43
Earl Wild, piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Jascha Horenstein, conductor
Symphonic Dances, Op 45 (2-piano version)
Nikolai Demidenko, Dmitri Alexeev, pianos
Producer: Chris Barstow.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06flpg6)
Highlights of the Martha Argerich Project
The "Martha Argerich Project", one of the main events of the Lugano Festival, is now in its 14th year. Argerich gathers together a range of musicians, some well-established and others at the beginning of their careers, who play together, sharing the stage. Concerts are held in churches, theatres and auditoria around the city, and the repertoire is very varied. Today's concert features arrangements for two pianos of music by Prokofiev, played by Argerich herself with Sergei Babyan.
Prokofiev, arr. Babayan: Transcriptions for two pianos
The Ghost of Hamlet's Father, from Hamlet, Op. 77
Polka, from Eugene Onegin, Op. 71
Polonaise, from The Queen of Spades, Op. 70
Pushkin Waltzes, Op. 120
Natasha and Andrei's Waltz, from War and Peace, Op. 91
Idée fixe, from The Queen of Spades, Op. 70
Martha Argerich, piano
Sergei Babayan, piano
Brahms: Piano Trio in E flat, Op. 40
Ilya Gringolts, violin
Nathan Braude, viola
Alexander Mogilevsky, piano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06flpg8)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff as part of Afternoon on 3's Southern Hemisphere Season
Claudio Santoro: Ponteio
Guerra-Peixe: Tributo a Portinari
Villa Lobos: Momoprecoce - fantasy for piano and orchestra
2.55
INTERVAL Bernstein: On the Waterfront
3.15
Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.8
Alexandre Levy: Samba from Suite Brésilienne
Lorenzo Fernandez: Batuque from Reisado do Pastoreio
Jean-Louis Steuerman (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Roberto Minczuk (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b06flpjr)
Salford
Sean Rafferty is joined in studio for live music by Laurence Perkins and a quartet of bassoons celebrating International Bassoon Day; Gavan Ring, who plays Figaro in Opera North's new production of Barber of Seville and award-winning folk trio The Young'uns. Conductor Stephen Bell will be popping in to talk about Halle Pops Orchestra's new season, too.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06flp2f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06flpnt)
BBC Philharmonic - Bernstein's Final Concert
The BBC Philharmonic recreate Bernstein's Final Concert
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Tom Redmond
Britten: Four Sea Interludes (from 'Peter Grimes')
Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's Symposium, for strings, harp, percussion and solo violin
20.20: Interval
20.40
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Tasmin Little, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor
In the week of the 25th anniversary of his death, the BBC Philharmonic celebrate Leonard Bernstein with a concert drawing on repertoire from his final performance.
Some say that Leonard Bernstein was one of the most important classical composers of the twentieth century. Others think his music's too enjoyable for that! But there's only one man who could have written a violin concerto based on an ancient Greek drinking party and filled it with such melody and wit.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b06flptl)
National Poetry Day Verb
For 'National Poetry Day' Ian McMillan presents a special Verb to celebrate 'undersung' poets from the past. His guests John Hegley, Angie Hobbs, Kei Miller and Michael Symmons Roberts will each explain why their chosen poet deserves more love and attention from the British public - Bertolt Brecht and Stevie Smith are just two of the writers whose talents will be sung.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b06flpvx)
Bliss Was It in That Dawn
Episode 5
As people get deep into middle age it's normal to look back at your childhood through a golden haze of nostalgia. But what if things really were better in the past? What if, by chance, you were born and grew up in a time and place of unprecedented economic growth and stability?
In this series of five talks for The Essay, Michael Goldfarb, born in the middle of the American Century, looks back at growing up in a US where things really were better: economically and socially. As the US struggles with social disintegration and political gridlock, Goldfarb remembers being born in the afterglow of World War 2, and how the "children of victory" were certain that the future would always be bright.
In this programme, he remembers the politics of 1960s America as anarchic violence tempered by youthful hope.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b06g6mnh)
Lopa Kothari - Muha in Session
Lopa Kothari presents a live session by BBC Introducing artist Muha.
Described as an Eastern European contemporary folk band, Muha are more than that as they combine melodies from Slavonic folklore, with North Indian rhythms, Caribbean beats and original lyrics, for a blend of different musical traditions across the world.
Also in the programme, new releases from around the globe as well as our World Music Archive track.